"The truth is never pure and rarely simple."
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"Truth is always truth, untruth is always untruth. This is what matters, this is right desire."
"Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with."
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
"History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place."
"A novel which persuades us of its truth is true however full of lies it may be"
"Supposing truth is a woman -- what then?"
"Truth is only an illusion we have forgotten is an illusion."
"The truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be."
"Truth is no road to fortune."
"Hasn't knowledge only crippled me from seeing truth? Is knowledge itself illusory?"
"Let there be truth between us."
"The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things."
"The person who thinks he has found the ultimate truth is wrong."
"Truth is something so noble that if God could turn aside from it, I could keep the truth and let God go."
"To speak the truth is easy and pleasant."
"The truth is that we isolate a particular kind of love and appropriate it for the name of love, which really belongs to a wider whole."
"The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either."
"The truth is how you say it, and to be 'one's self' is the most shocking custom of all."
"The attainment of truth is then the function of both the intellectual parts of the soul. Therefore their respective virtues are those dispositions which will best qualify them to attain truth."